Lućmierz-Las | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Łódź |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Zgierz |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Zgierz |
Coordinates: | 51.8936°N 19.3683°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Population Total: | 20 |
Lućmierz-Las (pronounced as /pl/, Lućmierz Forest) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Zgierz, within Zgierz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately 6km (04miles) north-west of Zgierz and 140NaN0 north-west of the regional capital Łódź.[1]
Along with the neighbouring settlement of Lućmierz-Ośrodek the village forms the Sołectwo Lućmierz.[2] The first mention of Lućmierz appeared in 1391.
During the occupation of Poland in World War II, Lućmierz-Las was the location of secret executions of Jews and Poles by Nazi German Einsatzgruppen helped by Selbstschutz executioners already since 1939. It is estimated that up to 30,000 people were murdered there in mass executions beginning with Intelligenzaktion Litzmannstadt and then continued with the killings of inmates of the Radogoszcz prison and Jews from the Łódź Ghetto. After the war, a memorial has been built there to commemorate victims buried in mass graves.[3] [4]